What is Baki Even About

If you think this video makes no sense then you've experienced Baki
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[@Laxhoop]

Baki is like JoJo, but the creator doesn’t have magic to help justify the insanity of his series, and he doesn’t care.

[@wahtinthegoddamn1487]

Bbbbbabbbbbabaased

[@Qvmmy]

he shouuld have care tho

[@Yoppio_Iopio]

i read that out loud like walter junior i am laughing somcuh@@wahtinthegoddamn1487

[@Ismatic1906]

@@QvmmyYou’re wrong

[@robertocozzi7306]

Both of them have big muscular half naked men fighting each other and indulging in very homosexual activities

[@lemeth2123]

I find it hilarious that this barely scratches the surface of how insanely weird Baki can be.

[@user-zx2nh1pe2x]

They didn't even touch the whole musashi thing

[@yakumoyomi5765]

Invisible food is honestly one of the least "insane" concepts in Baki.

[@Magni4cent_Pose]

Hey, remember when Retsu ran on water?

[@Thane3999]

Baki is not insane. It's merely fantastic. And savagely wild.

[@jebbryant6522]

Didnt even touch on the authors piss fetish he forces into every single arc

[@quantumgargoyle3888]

“Here is a picture of Muhammad Ali” THATS LITERALLY WHAT BAKI DOES HOLY SHIT

[@yaqinmalul6467]

True fr😂

[@S.p.o.b84547]

New or Early 2000s Baki ? Because the the old had constantsy until the end.

[@quantumgargoyle3888]

@@S.p.o.b84547 haven’t watched the early 2000s one, but all of the new Baki series just constantly throw a million references to real people and events every single flashback and it makes it so fun to watch

[@dunslax3]

You forgot the part where the narrator explains the story behind Hanayama's tatoo for the 13th time despite not being relevant or related at all to the fight just because it's really cool

[@Artemas_16]

It really is cool story though.

[@jamesrogers4690]

5 seconds of fighting just to cut to 20 minute flashback of how a character learned to fly from watching leaves float in milk

[@yessir7068]

😂

[@ozpin8329]

Don't forget Retsu going on a ten minute monologue about how the stomach evolved to digest food and the cultural significance of eating

[@Rararaahahromaromamagagaoolala]

​@@ozpin8329Baki is needed because spelling these things out is actually a necessity for some Baki is for people who do not appreciate life enough

[@casualcyberguy1314]

“My bones are turning into water, this guy is getting more bones, *OBAMA* ” Is the smoothest sentence of nonsense I’ve heard.

[@iamnot9541]

Also the random picture of Muhammad Ali

[@jamesbull4240]

"this is a picture of Muhammed Ali" more nonsense with no follow up kills me too

[@christophermoore6110]

@@iamnot9541but that isn’t actually in the show right?? That was edited??

[@Dynaman21]

Big words from the guy who kidnapped Dubya to purposefully get himself jailed.

[@usmanchughtai1751]

*here is a picture of Muhammad Ali*

[@mychaelwilson]

“A delicacy only known to the greatest fighters. Here is a picture of Muhammad Ali.” The most Baki thing of all time

[@Liam-lx8xb]

Little did baki know Ali was holding an invisible corn dog.

[@jacobsmith4428]

The narrator doesn't even say anything about how Muhammad Ali has anything to do with invisible food, it's just a picture of Muhammad Ali. It's amazing.

[@mikekasich836]

All that muscle and he still wouldn't be able to take a gorilla in a fight 😂

[@snakey1315]

Thats why his face looks like that. Hes trying to keep it in his mouth ​@@Liam-lx8xb

[@Pogbirb]

​@@jacobsmith4428 Muhammad Ali somehow always has something to do with something in baki Like he's just always mentioned

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

0:27 the best part about Pickle's whole existence is that literally every scientist in Baki mentions how his existence makes zero sense. He comes from the damn Jurassic period and the scientists are literally like "This dude shouldn’t exist. This shouldn’t work like this. Primates hadn’t even evolved yet at that period in time, _let alone_ Cavemen! *F•CKING HOW!?"*

[@jacobsmith4428]

I'd like to imagine he is not a human but is in fact secretly an apex dinosaur that just happens to look like a human on mega steroids.

[@Alondro77]

THE HORRIBLE TRUTH: The "Beastars" universe existed BEFORE HUMANITY, just after the dinosaurs died. But then Pickle evolved from the air and ATE THEM ALL!!! Including Melon, because his plot armor was wayyyyy weaker than Pickle's. So then Pickle got bored and waited until humans had evolved their ultimate form... SO HE COULD EAT THEM TOO!!! :O

[@Tawman]

@@Alondro77 You good?

[@Shenanigans303]

And then a bunch of muscle bound Meatheads come around going on and on about wanting to fight him and the scientists are just like "aight sure w/e man nothing matters anymore"

[@Alondro77]

@@Tawman I GOD!!

[@kucklowmusic9184]

Invisible food suggests existence of visible food and that fact scares me

[@AMan-xz7tx]

(eating) "You like seafood?" "I mean, I COULD go for some invisible shrimp right no-" (opens mouth) "See? food!" "...how the fuck..."

[@jzh4805]

Nor way 🇳🇴😢😔

[@stegosandrosos1291]

Ent:

[@doot4246]

i am on a STRICT semi-visible to translucent food diet

[@SomeRandomDude821]

knucklow I have terrible news

[@bloodraven432]

For anyone who has never seen the show, this is a near perfect representation of what Baki was all about. Just forgot to mention the one guy who got so swole that he can block bullets with his muscles and the international killer criminals who apparently know where Baki is at any given time.

[@Ndasuunye]

...da fuq? I think there was a point where animators just gave up.

[@alexanderinoa7850]

“I can sense him…”

[@funnyzorua]

Apparently the Oliva tanking those shotgun blasts was based on a real thing

[@whereipostmyclips7963]

​@@Ndasuunyeanimators are not writers lol

[@mikec1222]

They must have slipped an invisible GPS into his Invisible Food

[@alfalldoot6715]

Baki is like if hype itself was turned into a series, after a certain point, you can see a man literally turn his arm into a whip and you just go "damn that's sick"

[@tailedgates9]

That was still my favorite part of the Pickle arc. :D Katsumi achieved something incredible.

[@lilhoss4reals]

"My dad taught me the technique when I was a kid but told me to never use it because "real men don't slap."

[@taccm386]

@@tailedgates9I was really upset with how katsumi was portrayed againts the convicts so seeing him fight pickle was such a breath of fresh air, katsumi was always a weird character who felt out of place. I’m very glad he actually completed his character arc.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@taccm386 Katsumi was far from my favorite, but him redeeming one of the death row guys was great story telling. He shows compassion, and when betrayed, he humbles the guy into accepting defeat.

[@salj.5459]

@@taccm386I always disliked Katsumi because he was an asshole and broke two of the rugby guy's front teeth for no reason

[@bushmonster3591]

On the one hand, I was shocked to learn that the daughter of the guy who wrote Grappler Baki wrote Beastars, but at the same time, it makes perfect sense that the daughter of the guy who wrote Grappler Baki would go on to write Beastars.

[@anjaneyasreetrout2444]

Atleast Beastars followed SOME form of logic.......

[@jikkai_1034]

​​@@anjaneyasreetrout2444*Remember Legoshi's training with that rabbit, or when he eats an insect and has a conversation in the spiritual world with him* Yeah, okay, it follows some logic...

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

​@anjaneyasreetrout2444 Beastars kinda tossed whatever it had out the window during its final arc, it kinda got unhinged (to the extent a story with it's other main plot arcs being a wolf and rabbit wanting to fuck and a traumatized deer eating meat to self actualize was sane to begin with lel) I like it because intentional or not Legoshi is extremely neurodivergently coded but... yeah...

[@anjaneyasreetrout2444]

@@jikkai_1034 I mean....it's still pretty tame when compared to "typical Baki stuff" tho

[@anjaneyasreetrout2444]

@@randomchannel-px6ho I guess I was kinda lucky that I didn't finish Beastars. I kinda lost interest after season 1.

[@filiformis]

To actually explain what happened in this scene: Baki is about the strongest creature, and has certain ideas about what strength is. On a surface level, strength means the ability to beat someone up. But Yjiro is the strongest not just because he can beat people up, but because he can force people to accept his vision of the world, his way of life, everything about himself... because he can beat everyone up. There is literally nothing anyone can do to stop him. Baki invented a kind of extreme version of shadow boxing (because everything in Baki is extreme) where you pretend so hard something becomes kind of real. At first Yjiro thought it was utterly hilarious and ridiculous, but in this scene Baki got him to participate in it (this video makes it appear like Yjiro was controlling the situation, but really Baki was). In doing this, Yjiro came over to Baki's vision of the world and accepted something he had previously dismissed, meaning Baki is stronger than Yjiro. If you've seen the Chinese movie Hero, the emperor talks about the "highest ideal" he gleans through the calligraphy of Broken Sword. The first level of mastering the sword is where everything becomes a weapon (the swordsman), second level is where the warrior doesn't need a sword to kill (the emperor), and the third level is where the sword no longer exists (the ideal). It aligns with the Buddhist notion of freeing yourself from attachment. Baki is "getting rid of the sword", letting go of his attachment to violence, by stopping the fight, and inviting his father to eat an imaginary meal. The empty bowl is a motif in Buddhism, and because Baki is extreme, the bowl is doubly empty by never really existing in the first place. Baki wins through strength of spirit. The series is still insane.

[@fist-of-doom487]

That’s really dumb in the best way possible

[@Shadow-gc6le]

Doing this he proves himself stronger than Yujiro in Yujiros world view by as you said making him believe the same as baki, but also by doubly imposing his will. By flipping the table after his father made the soup (something yujiro said he wouldnt do unless baki beat him) he showed authority over yujiro not only in being able to disrespect him in his own conceptual reality but also in Yujiros by the way of making Yujiro actually care that baki flipped the table.

[@shill2920]

@@fist-of-doom487 thats baki in a nutshell

[@dethhollow]

So basically: Baki "Let's enjoy some breadsticks, dad." Yujiro "Breatsticks? BREADSTICKS!?!? I don't see no fuckin' Breadsticks here!!!" Baki "But dad, you've been holding the Breadsticks all along!" (points at nothing) Yujiro "SCREW YOU AND YOUR STUPID BREADSTICKS!!!" (throws nothing at Baki) Baki (lets it phase through himself) "Ahh... but why would you do that if there aren't any breadsticks to throw...?" Yukiro "WHHAAAAAAA-?????????" Audience "HOLY SHIT, BAKI DID IT! HE'S THE BEST!!!"

[@filiformis]

@@dethhollow On a surface level, yeah.

[@Ididitlikethis2079]

“Baki is what people who don’t watch anime, think Jojo’s bizarre adventure is like.” - A friend of mine

[@trollhimforever]

Baki is just Jojo 2, the stands, hamon, spin, and vampires are replaced with multiplicative strength

[@nameless_1]

​@@trollhimforeverJOJO is actually well-written though

[@myronbourne6937]

​@nameless_1 nope lmao.

[@flamingcat1101]

​@@myronbourne6937why

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@nameless_1 I wanted to jump out of a window by the end of part 2. if Karrs came back again, I might have actually done it. But between how terrible part 1 was and how painful part 2 is... All I have is that annoying bastard _speedwagon_ is thankfully dead like the rat piece of sh"t deserved to be after his first few lines.

[@l0ading4ever39]

The funniest thing about Baki is how the story takes itself so seriously while having the most insane shit ever thought of happen to genetically perfect humans

[@Uwhwvwgwh]

not really but it's part of the charm

[@hotpocketdeity]

That narrator be gaslighting me into believing I could do what they do if I trained hard enough

[@ToastedLater]

@@hotpocketdeityread Holyland bro it teaches some theory to various fighting styles and gives insight on the strengths and weaknesses to each in (usually) the streetfighting setting. Pretty good manga

[@IsaiahRichards692]

It’s also full of bullshit pseudoscience and nonsense! Like a guy and a girl making love for days on end! Baki would be done in less than a minute in real life!

[@angelofthedead1886]

@@hotpocketdeity Don’t forget the pp training.

[@garretthildebrandt428]

The idea that Yujiro doesn’t know how to turn off the demon back is so hysterical.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

*Baki:* (exists) *Logic and reason:* _"I want to taste defeat."_

[@crypticlol]

They tasted and didn't like it at all

[@HoV326]

So if it's all invisible food, does that imply the invisible table, bowl, and chopsticks are edible too?

[@obamahostile4073]

I mean you CAN eat a table, bowl and chopsticks, I guess It's kinda on you

[@Axeeco]

anything can be edible if you are stupid enough to try and eat it

[@KnuttyEntertainment]

Reminds me of Toriko.

[@Maruiti]

Of course not, that doesn't make any sense.

[@Mereologist]

Sawdust is literally a food additive, and is in many fast food products.

[@eon1014]

I’m genuinely shocked that you didn’t bring up Yuichiro’s ghost. That was one of the most baffling parts of the entire story.

[@kekero540]

I love how usually everyone can’t see the hallucinations but no Yuichiro literally psychically manifested himself just to call Yujiro a bitch.

[@ericcartman9070]

So.....of all the things that happened in the anime, a ghost is out of place?

[@eon1014]

@@ericcartman9070 Yeah, but mostly because before that point, the existence of ghosts wasn’t something that was even hinted at or foreshadowed in the story at all, and how Yuichiro’s ghost appeared is never explained either.

[@ericcartman9070]

@@eon1014 is anything ever explained in the show?

[@massgunner4152]

​@@ericcartman9070yes, but the author takes so many liberties with the "science" behind the combat that you will learn nothing from the narrator.

[@DobieMeltfire]

2:10 I died when the narrator itself couldn't explain it. "Albert Einstein?.. holy shit! I'm Out!"

[@deleetiusproductions3497]

The way he just tries to insert Einstein into the story, it's just hilarious.

[@kchikwete]

​@@deleetiusproductions3497 yep a theoretical physicist was inserted to teach anthropology

[@hyperionofhyperness1883]

HE SAID ALBERT ENSTEIN?!?! I DIDN'T KNOW HOLY SHIT

[@dogo523]

I coulsnt hear it the first time i watchhed thanks😭

[@Martin-pp1ww]

2:15 Fuck this shit I'm out!

[@rileyanderson-uk3ql]

King Pin: it was never the money Spider-Man. Spider-Man: alrighty, then what was all it for? King Pin: the Invisible Food. Spider-Man: what King Pin: (starts to eat 100% organic potato chips) (slow chewing and loud crunching).

[@anabomination2784]

You know this made more sense than the anime did

[@Rogue-a-Pogue]

Jack Hanma's character ONLY makes sense when you think of him as a fighter desperate to eat the invisible food.

[@spaghettios8918]

@@Rogue-a-Poguehe even mastered the art of biting so he could try to bite the invisible food

[@MarvinPowell1]

@anabomination2784 Can someone give me the TL;DR of what this anime is about? (Besides "invisible food," I don't know what that means.)

[@anabomination2784]

@@spaghettios8918 Ok that actually makes sense when you put it like that.

[@naufalmEZa]

​​@@MarvinPowell1shadow boxing is a thing yeah? Take that concept, into everything, think of the most mundane activity you could think of. Put "imaginary" upfront. That's it, that's Baki. Just kidding, Yujiro's the strongest living creature on earth, Baki (and many more) is his biological son... In TEKKEN fashion, Baki's on a quest to beat his father, many hijinks ensues in-between.

[@entrippyZ]

I love how baki always starts with something almost believable and then devolves to over the top nonsense. He goes from shadowboxing imaginary boxers, to getting IRL wounded by imaginary dinosaurs. When the scene starts with "i can match your macho fighting style" it ends with "I CAN BREAK YOUR FINGERS WITH MY EYES."

[@ProphetLot]

...

[@dacter13]

He’s not wrong

[@ghost245353]

You can thank cockroach sensei for that ability.

[@Ragness10]

I can’t even tell if this is hyperbole

[@sanchitory]

​@@Ragness10 Nope, it happened

[@Jeevan_Sanjana]

"Here is a picture of Muhammad Ali" Got me laughing so hard of how out of context the narrator can be 💀

[@SHyguymoll]

after watching this, I immediately went to watch the show. Now that I've finished it, I wish that you mentioned the guy who tactically dies of old age, the man with too many holes, or baki's brain

[@the_luckiest_charm]

"tactically dies" Genius

[@Scrubs4Life]

I still have no idea how Flipping the Imaginary Table made Yujiro go "yeah kid, you got me."

[@danielzakgaim2764]

Yujiro explained that to him, strength is a measurement of your ability to impose your will on others. When Baki flipped the table, Yujiro's reaction showed that he genuinely put effort into cooking it. Baki got Yujrio to cook a meal for him like Baki cooked for Yijiro at the start of the arc. While Yujiro may have physically beaten him, Baki managed to achieve his goal of getting a home cooked meal from his dad.

[@FirstnameLastname-le9hq]

From what I know, in japan, flipping the dinner table is a thing that only the head of the household (typically father) would do. So baki flipping the table is a symbolism for him taking authority over yujiro, making his will stronger than yujiro's, which in baki logic makes him stronger than yujiro and therefore the strongest being on the planet

[@nerdman4862]

One way to see it is that this whole time yujiro had been prepping baki to be a fight he could enjoy like a delicious meal but Baki is defying that fate showing he’s not just a meal/fight yujiro wants but also his son

[@dootdootington386]

​@@nerdman4862I'm not sure if you guys are just fucking with us and pretending to be serious, or this actually happened, but I'm slowly shutting down trying to think to hard over here either way.

[@_P2M_]

The whole table and food were illusions, and both knew they weren't real. Baki didn't actually flip a table with food on it, but it was so believable, Yujiro was caught up in the illusion and freaked out for a moment. That's why Baki was superior. His technique fooled the Ogre.

[@CriticallyGnart]

Now that solidjj has made a baki video, he has become the world's funniest creature.

[@ratpee-gt2eh]

no NO NO STOP THIS IS WORSE THAN LOBOTOMY KAISEN

[@kirko_wondaar]

​@@ratpee-gt2ehBro chill

[@HangingDGrunt]

I hope someone doesn't explain a whole ass 10-page essay to why solid is the "world's funniest creature" in a Baki style, ...

[@jestfullgremblim8002]

​@@HangingDGruntlol

[@gangzilla5716]

​​@@ratpee-gt2eh "Stand proud, Solid jj. You are funny."

[@abdullahalmansoori4489]

2:05 is my favorite frame in all of solid jj canon

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

0:33 also don’t forget the time that the prison arc was started because Baki kidnapped Bill Clinton.

[@Melonist]

What?

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

@@Melonist okay. Basically, Baki wanted to fight Biscuit Oliva (a man with nearly bulletproof skin who can recover from nearly anyinjury with just steak and wine), but he was in Arizona State Prison. So Baki had the bright idea to fly to America, kidnap Bill Clinton when he was taking a drive in public, brought him to a cafe and told him the reason he's doing this is so that he can get put into a maximum security prison, specifically Arizona State, for reasons that I just mentioned, but made sure to not actually hurt Bill so that he doesn’t get the death penalty or something. Baki peacefully brings Bill Clinton back out to his guards, he's arrested, Bill Clinton honours his wishes by sending him to Arizona State Prison, giving Baki what he wanted. Also he meets Che Guevara in prison.

[@Melonist]

@@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 wow

[@deleetiusproductions3497]

That is never going to make sense.

[@theMRsome12]

​@@deleetiusproductions3497 to make it worse. The bulletproof dude only got so roided up for his abusive girlfriend who's incredibly overweight. And he wanted to carry her in his arms.

[@violentbeetle2441]

I think I saw a few episodes of this, there was a martial art tournament, and one guy got his optic nerves ripped out of his neck somehow and went blind, but then repaired his optic nerves with his bare hands while in the ring and restored his sight. I'm not sure how it gets from this to invisible food, but the seeds were already planted.

[@davidhong1934]

The seeds were invisible corn seeds used to grow invisible corn, allowing for production of invisible corn chips, a type of invisible food

[@YGeo]

Well how can your enemy see the invisible food it they're eye's don't work? but yeah I recall seeing one of ovas back in 2000 on like on of those off Stars channels and got whiplashed over how crazy the real series got.

[@seanmorgan1759]

@@davidhong1934 Corn chips are no place for a mighty warrior!

[@somedudethatlovesmemes6625]

It's from the earlier seasons when the animation team had three Oreo cookies for a budget. I haven't read that part of the manga, but I'm assuming he didn't get his optic nerves ripped out of his NECK there since the original artist is actually really fucking talented Edit: can't wait for some dude who just so happened to read the manga to call me an idiot

[@jasonlewis4438]

​@@somedudethatlovesmemes6625 You're an idiot. Itagaki legit had the optic nerves be in someone's neck in the manga too because Baki Logic.

[@hellenicboi14]

Baki is 1% plot 49% fighting and 50% talking about fighting.

[@thegamingaristocrat7615]

while fighting

[@vispev3123]

Nah it's 50% fighting 49% talking about fighting

[@AlejandroGonzalez-ej4lp]

"fighting" if you mean "receiving blows in the face without avoiding them"

[@RockySamson]

I’ve never seen this show yet I can’t shake the feeling deep down in my stomach that this is all 100% completely canon.

[@saggitaireauger9154]

Narrator explanation aside it’s really how the last fight end. There is almost no additional context, it’s just : - I made you invisible food - It’s a bit salty *throw invisible bowl* - Damn brat ! *tries to catch invisible bowl* - *everyone cheering and Baki victory* And it’s not even the weirdest stuff in this. Fighting a caveman was dumb, but what about fighting ghosts ? Not people with no presence, but the essence of dead beings. This show just go all the back and come back just to enjoy your confused look

[@dylanteixeira2502]

1:38 the sad theme from yu yu hakusho... hit me right in the feels 😭 Especially ive been rewatching it.

[@bigbuddydaddy]

Yyh greatest anime of all time

[@cupoftea3499]

I watch baki and have even read the isekai. This is genuinely the funniest shit ever. "Invisible food, a delicacy to the greatest of fighters, here is a picture of Muhammad Ali." Is genius

[@Hevymin]

I don’t think you know what Isekai means.

[@smiley77060]

Wait... isekai? Baki was transported to another world?

[@hypernytrix5433]

@@Hevymin No no, he's right, in the main story one of the character die, and there is an official manga spin off where he is reincarnated in another world

[@ralek592]

@@hypernytrix5433 I see.. kay.

[@cupoftea3499]

@@smiley77060 No no. I would tell you who is in it but it is a major spoiler on who dies.

[@Jebus4910]

The fact this is all canon and not exaggerated in the slightest is phenomenal im surprised you went with obama instead of when baki kidnapped George bush to fight a prison inmate

[@JeremyFinch42]

Bro what. If that's real I'm questioning if the people making this show are on DMT carts.

[@finaloblivion799]

@@JeremyFinch42 That's real.

[@JeremyFinch42]

@@finaloblivion799 Jesus Christ, this is what DMT does to you then.

[@erichdamer1312]

We also have a moment of a chinese guy running so fast that he runs on water (with another guy on his back). Faces that have been hit by explosions just heal after a season, ears and fingers and arms get reattaches without problems, Baki at some point gets poisoned and almost dies until he fights another poison fighter and unpoisons himself.... Shit's batshit insane

[@elseggs6504]

​@@JeremyFinch42Aforementioned prison inmate is also having a fight with fucking Che Guevara

[@broncos435]

this is the funniest fucking thing solidjj has ever made, and it's literally just talking about the denouement of baki. the script and voice acting were fantastic, and the editing just took it to another level. my sides are in fucking orbit, and i salute you

[@anjaneyasreetrout2444]

2:00 I lost my shit at this moment

[@bigdongroma539]

"That's never gona be resolved" lmao Baki entire thing was to avenge his mom but author forgot

[@Colors82]

the whole fight broke out because yujiro refused to acknowledge his killing of baki's mom

[@DPowered2]

Season 2 Baki was freaking weird and annoying. They spent more time pausing to talk about things than actual fighting. Baki's girlfriend unironically called it out during the fight with is dad because thats what they hole season had been

[@gangzilla5716]

Nah Baki already has his revenge when he made Yujiro admit his defeat. He just found better things to do in life than killing his dad

[@MrSamulai]

I swear the entirety of Baki is some mad genius deprogramming course designed to make you immune to immersion break.

[@SevenPr1me]

Right? Characters will do the most insane crap out of nowhere and we are like learning how to move faster then a bullet by staring at a cockroach. The audience: "that made perfect sense"

[@crust9889]

Not to mention they try to pass something off as realistic by trying to tie it to an irl story or phenomenon with the characters saying: "That was a true story."

[@om-js6qq]

@crust9889 Tbh that's my favourite aspect of baki. The author doesn't say that the characters have superpowers. He pretends that they are totally realistic and that they can do these crazy things because if you practice enough, you can actually have superpowers in real life.

[@MrSamulai]

@@om-js6qq In Baki, professional athletes who literally train all their life are nothing but punching bags. Our main cast does definitely train, but they also do have superpowers for basically no reason.

[@DuckieMcduck]

@@MrSamulai it's cuz "they got the blood"

[@calicobagels]

1:32 That was so out of nowhere lmao

[@ryuga7538]

The only series that can compared the bizarreness of Jojo is Baki.

[@bigpurplepops]

The “you killed my mother” bit in Baki might actually be the most HILARIOUS version I’ve seen in fiction. It’s really just been aggressively unresolved so far. Baki just stops caring and Yuujiro’s just implied to regret it.

[@nikeneon3188]

I mean it's not like they can't undo that tbh...

[@Subpar1O1]

When you cross the "invisible food" bridge things like dead moms kind of take a backseat at that point tbh

[@aldinlewis5579]

I’ve personally interpreted it as Baki being more like his dad then he cares to admit/realizes. He just doesn’t actually care that his dad straight up murders his mom. It’s what used to motivate him, but as he grew closer to yujiro in strength he also grew closer to him in personality and beliefs.

[@VitoScaleda]

Remember when Baki's mom full on kisses Baki on the lips?

[@iamperson1277]

Or blame him for being weak just because he didn’t give her the googilies

[@raudelairedesrosiers634]

This video is the probably the most accurate in portraying a baki episode, down to random black and white cutaways. The only thing it's missing is someone getting peed on

[@viniolivv]

But fr "now that you've got no urine in you, how will you escape this tetrahedron?" 😂😂

[@johnaeryns5364]

Baki is a slice of life about a boy reluctantly following in his fathers footsteps. He's reluctant because they have a troubled history. And not much in common. But eventually, the father comes to respect and appreciate the son for who he is. And acknowledges him on his own merit.

[@theMRsome12]

And then he fights miyamoto musashi who got brought back from the dead.

[@crypticlol]

​@theMRsome12 Baki-Dou is weird fr

[@anti1training]

0:50 "Invisible food a delicacy only known to the greatest fighters" And gymnast 🤣

[@deadpoolchimichangas7111]

Love how he starts explaining just like the anime

[@beastalchemistVA]

And even he figures out how stupid this all is

[@nerdgeekman]

As someone who’s never watched Baki, I’m assuming this is the show in a nutshell.

[@feedo1]

Judging by comments I think you're right

[@userzero6555]

Unironically, this is exactly how the last fight went, except he skipped a few more bits of nonsense

[@ImDrippingFrFr]

as a person whos read all the manga, watched all the anime, looked at yujiro's hot sweaty abs a bit too much, i can say that this is exactly how baki is.

[@raudelairedesrosiers634]

This is exactly what this shows about

[@low-resghul8306]

Not only this is what it’s about, it is also almost beat for beat ripped from the plot. Like JJ barely changed the script. And I fuckin’ love it

[@joshuahendricks9558]

"Here is a picture of Muhamad Ali" - that was the moment this truly ascended.

[@5uperM]

How were you able to just upload unedited episodes of Baki on youtube without getting a strike?

[@Nicolassieca]

It was because invisible food

[@fallingsky219]

Invisible food

[@angelofthedead1886]

Probably 4000 years chinese training or somethin’

[@SimplyDuker]

@@Nicolassieca Also, here's a picture of Muhammad Ali.

[@Sam_Sam2]

I like that Yujiro sounds like an Italian mob boss with a dry throat.

[@SmileytheSmile]

Nothing can describe my expience of someone who hasn't watched Baki, stumbling onto the final fight between those two (an unfrozen caveman was present, as is expected) and it ending with them eating imaginary food.

[@kekero540]

Also halfway through the fight the grandfather psychically manifests himself to call Yujiro a bitch (everyone CAN see him)

[@Ape_Tero]

Very Abridged / Reductive TL;DR: -Early Baki: A Story about a kid running the fade of every jock and sportsman in his age range, also he's been a Korakuen champ for a while; -Maximum Tournament Baki: He wants to avenge his mom, and hates his dad, but loves his newfound older half-brother; -Prisioner -> Raitai Baki: He wants to get out of his dad's shadow, still hates him; -Son of Ogre Baki: He says he just saw a man hug his wife (mom) to death, and that's okay, but he still wants to come out of his dads shadow, hate is dwindling and being replaced with combat lust. He also can't tell if he respects his dad, or is allowing himself to be manipulated by these feelings; -Dou Baki: There's two mangas with this name, and in both, Baki has just elevated himself to a ludicrous level, also you get unsatisfying matchups in the second one, but one very cool new character. -Baki Rahen: Jack Hanma is one tough bastard.

[@borter567]

"here is a picture of Muhammad Ali" is criminally underrated

[@zlPaRaDoXx]

I died when Pickle made the Donkey Kong Noise 😂 With that being said, I love Baki, and I hope it never changes

[@MarvinPowell1]

@zlPaRaDoXx What's the context of the DK cry with him?

[@zlPaRaDoXx]

@MarvinPowell1 In Baki, Pickle is a prehistoric caveman who was resurrected back into modern society. He eventually fights with a variety of modern martial artists. Him being primitive is why the DK cry was used.

[@tailedgates9]

I lost it. XD Pickle is so happy for Baki and knows how to show it. Lol

[@Japple_Junior]

Even the narrator had absolutely no idea what was going on! 😂

[@wojciechficek616]

He knew exactly what was happening. Namely, invisible food.

[@tailedgates9]

@@wojciechficek616 This is what it's all come down to. Invisible food. XD

[@a_angry_bunny]

Actually, wasn't the mother murder resolved? I think there is this whole thing where Yujiro loved his wife so much that he wanted to give her a real hug for once with all his strength. And since he's clinically insane that is exactly what he did.

[@smiley6425]

Other way around. Bakis mom was batshit obsessed with Yujiro so much that she was crying tears of happiness getting crushed to death

[@a_angry_bunny]

@smiley6425 I didn't say Yujiro was the only one that was insane.

[@GeorgeCowsert]

The ultimate goal of Baki is still to surpass Yujiro; it's just his motivation has shifted. It started as a form of vengeance for Yujiro killing Baki's mom, but now it's as an act of respect. Baki, while he still mourns his mom, understands who Yujiro truly is and how to understand his twisted sense of love. Baki wants to surpass Yujiro so that he can take the mantle of Ogre and use it with a wee bit more discipline.

[@MenrvaS]

This is basically how the last fight went. Yujiro lost because Baki was so into it that he made Yujiro believed the imaginary dining table was real when he flipped it. I wish that was a joke.😅

[@2-bit567]

Okay, that makes slightly more sense

[@pokem80]

Baki was one of those series where you have to imagine it as a fantasy in a different world. Otherwise,you may begin asking how a guy with bullet wounds in his knee can stand tall and walk, or the idea someone with enough willpower can have 90% of his body destroyed and be in critical condition and still manages to take throw a few punches (Honorable mention is ali jr punching with a cast and using that punching to heal himself)

[@amaadshah91]

Tbf oliva tanking those bullets with his muscle was based off an incident that happened to the real guy he was based off of(Sergio oliva) lol, where he was shot 5 times with a snubnose pistol and survived. The doctors said if he didn't have that much muscle causing resistance between the bullets and his vital organs he probably would have died 90% of baki is still just funny bs though

[@HighEffortUsername]

Other honourable mention: Baki having an out of body experience and deciding to punch Yujiro with his ghost

[@TheGenchannel]

Its different than regular fantasy because most fantasy has established, consistent rules. Baki is just batshit insane

[@crust9889]

Baki tried really hard to use real life phenomena or stories to tell the audience "see... It's technically possible." Everything from the synchronicity plot to the "final fuck you" was a stretch and/or inaccurate. But hey, it's an anime.

[@strikermodel]

The invisible food thing was a metaphor for exerting your will onto others. Baki made his father get into the illusion and catch the "food" baki flung into the air, thus exerting his will onto the ogre.

[@Kittycatty45]

I like how the narrator, the guy who’s supposed to explain everything just gives up

[@og_thisdice]

All it takes is one scientific discovery irl and it will be used as a fight move in Baki

[@alienvisitor8393]

baki is about kids who watched too many martial arts movies making up their own fighting moves to play fight each other, meanwhile, yujiro is the older brother who doesn't let his sibling win by countering every single move they throw at him

[@Ponera-Sama]

"Wait, it's all invisible food?" "Always has been" *Gunshot*

[@namenovic2342]

2:05 Pickle 😭😭😭😂😂

[@Gehirnkrieg]

i got caught off guard by that and damn im dying now

[@KingBrit-lw7jx]

Bro i spent several minutes wheezing because of the fucking donkey kong noises 😂

[@LivingGuy484]

I've only seen half an episode of Baki, and I can't even tell how much of this is parody vs what the author actually wrote

[@jinglejangle1533]

Baki never filps out over all the nonsense and its actually IMAGINARY food, but other than that the video is pretty accurate

[@AbystomaMexicanium]

Almost none of the video is a parody lol

[@LivingGuy484]

Holy shit 😂

[@kabukimanindahouse]

itagaki is the pinnacle of trolling his audience. sometimes i feel like he's reading up on reddit and sees just what the fans want or expect, laughs and draws the total opposite. like when he hyped up a character for months, just for him to get entirely destroyed in an instant, while he blew a snot rocket with his foot.

[@NycmanTheNicestOfMen]

the entire history of ali jr.

[@xeres6232]

Ali Jr being a crybaby in Baki standards was so fucking funny

[@the-seraph]

When you catch a whiff of a mere 1% of an invisible apple fritter

[@thebibi1751]

0:56 "Here is a picture of Muhammad Ali" 💀💀

[@Soul93Taker]

Baki is the embodiment of "author wants it to be taken seriously, nobody ever does". Seriously, I've tried to finish this thing like twelve times and can't get past half an episode before my brain simply refuses to go on.

[@fedupN]

Yeah, same. I do NOT understand when people hype this. I am like, mate, I do NOT have enough brain damage to get on board with this.

[@selamandreykum5844]

Skill issue

[@Shadow6OO]

Read the manga then. Being able to set your own pace istead of relying on early 90s anime pacing makes the experience much more enjoyable. If you don't like it after a couple of chapters, then it's not just not your thing.

[@chadhardt6136]

for me, Baki has become a lot more enjoyable when used as the typical " i want to turn my brain off for a bit" enjoyment. the entire fucking thing makes no sense, and its for the best

[@jambott5520]

​@@fedupN because it's fucking rediculous. In no other series will you have a father drop in on his son mid sex, give an encouraging speech about how he should fuck all day and night, and afterward proceeds to grab the door handle, open the door before teleporting, in no other series would that be played 100% straight. Baki is dumb, it's stupid, but it's genuine. And I can appreciate that.

[@Magni4cent_Pose]

Allow me to explain the significance of the invisible food in excruciating detail… Yujiro Hanma, time and again, has been established as the world's strongest creature. A man who bows to no-one, fears no-one, and respects no-one. Even his own family is a write-off to him, as he pursues further strength. Baki, despite his initial motivation of revenge, is ultimately a tragic character, beset by loneliness. His entire life, his mother treated him less like a person, and more like a means to an end to reach Yujiro, who again, had no love or respect for Baki. So, by forcing Yujiro to make Baki invisible dinner, it's not just an act taking victory over Yujiro by making the world's strongest serve dinner, but it's a way of earning some respect from an estranged father figure. Baki has finally won some appraisal from the man who's shadow he's lived in for his entire life. It's a symbolic reconnection. As for Pickle… Yeah, I got nothin'.

[@vanhala1547]

Pickle is just Itagaki experimenting with the idea of "modern skill vs old strenght", a theme he later explores more in depth with musashi. I think where it kinda falls apart is that pickle is treated as somewhat of a savage animal, so Itagaki cant write pickle actually getting injured in a fight, since he lacks the communication ability to fully consent to violence like the main cast can. Kinda the same deal as Itagaki pointing out with doppo how killing tigers to flex your strenght is not actually cool. It just leaves a bad taste in the mouth because of animal cruelty.

[@Magni4cent_Pose]

@@vanhala1547 Yeah, that makes sense. Jack's fight especially is the greatest example of that. Although, there are one or two scenes that do indicate that Pickle has a higher sense of self than the average animal, like when he refused to eat Katsumi, or when Hanayama brings Baki to meet Pickle. Baki laments that Pickle is like the Yasha ape, where both Baki and Yujiro invaded it's territory just for a fight; This idea is immediately shut down when Pickle dunks on him, and proceeds to do a little victory dance.

[@Thane3999]

Yep, this right here.

[@gregvs.theworld451]

So, Yujiro is basically Heihachi? No wonder people want a Baki character in Tekken, we're just doing the Mishimas again.

[@MarvinPowell1]

@Magni4cent_Pose Thank you.

[@sugartoothYT]

I can imagine during writing/acting this out he realized how fun it's to say "invisible food" in the manner he did and so he leaned into it.

[@SavantPete]

The plot actually made sense in the beginning. Baki training to beat his dad in a fight to get his mother's approval. Then he lost and Yijiro killed his mother. You would think it was supposed to be a revenge story like Tekken, but then they oversimplify it, making it a meaningless father-son fight. Then it turns out Baki also wantes his father's approval which he has. Now where is the plot headed, since Baki achieved his ultimate goal?

[@hectorrodriguezgonzalez8938]

They fight a samuray of corse

[@SavantPete]

@@hectorrodriguezgonzalez8938 That makes sense

[@Ki_Adi_Mundi]

That's...the perfect voice you could've use for Yujiuro. Thank you.

[@Grimdock]

0:55 had me absolutely dying of laughter lmfao

[@Machintoshhater]

Remember the author of Baki is the father of the author of Beastars. Being able to remember what your story was about is not taught at Mr. Itagaki's house.

[@bobaorc7839]

Baki's bewildered stutter at 1:51 makes me laugh so hard

[@topcat59]

How do you think pickles got so much gains, he had to eat a lot of invisible food before he was even allowed to taste any real food during the prehistoric era.🐱

[@AndrewDeathzomde]

To be fucking honet, The T-rex is like 15,500 pounds of MUSCULE, i think he ate T rex meat or someshit idk

[@Owlmeatsandbeaks]

D I N O P R O T I E N

[@manhphanhoang9555]

​@@AndrewDeathzomdehe did, the whole point of his arc is he only eat what give him thrill in battle, sth he can hunt and unlike the dinosaurs, none of the moderna animals can give him that except for the rarest one.

[@RoniusMaxed]

@@AndrewDeathzomde But after he ran out of the t-rex meat he would have to eat the invisible food

[@yanchan17]

I can only imagine what would invisible food do to Baki, if just drinking a bucket full of sugar water will completely regenerate his body.

[@trietlam1438]

It still stunned me till this day that invisible foods are just…shadow boxing, yes, you didn’t read it wrong, it was all shadow boxing. Baki practices by accurately imagines the fighters he wanted to fight, his imagination was so on point that his brain perceived it as a real thing and started to damaged his body whenever he got hit. Last time I checked, he boxed a dinosaur in his mind right before the Retsu Kaio vs Pickle fight

[@TheMysteriousGamer6]

Baki is about being as insane as possible while gaslighting the audience into thinking that the feats are somehow feasable with enough will.

[@TheMC1102]

Yujiro Hanma is like Omni-Man, he wants his son to follow in his footsteps, but is also willing to beat him to a bloody pulp.

[@FirstLast-cg2nk]

Yes, Baki is absolutely ridiculous and insane, but that's the point. The entire show is basically about the absurdity of the desire to be the strongest. Despite all the effort that Baki goes through, everything he overcomes and endures, he ends up without a real resolution, and Yujiro is the same, because he doesn't get to fight someone strong enough to defeat him. Honestly, I feel like that's the secret message behind everything in Baki. No one in the series ever really seems to reach fulfillment through fighting, and instead a lot of people seem to just flat out ruin their lives in seeking greatness through martial arts. Several people are permanently disfigured and/or crippled trying to fight an unfrozen caveman simply because they think he's pretty strong, in fights with no meaning and no reward other than "I beat a guy who used to wrestle T-Rexes". Yujiro Hanma killed his wife and made his son hate him because he wanted Baki to be the ultimate fighter, and in the end he still wasn't enough to defeat Yujiro or give him a satisfying match. Yeah, Yujiro Hanma can punch an earthquake to death, but as impressive as that is, it's more or less a parlor trick. A guy threw a punch faster than the speed of sound and destroyed his arm in the process, and what did that net him asides from respect amongst the people there to see it? None of the things any of the martial artists in Baki accomplish will ever mean anything to anyone barring a small audience who actually cares about that kind of thing. It's all meaningless self-satisfaction. In the end, Baki doesn't get fulfillment through fighting his father, but by basically closing the book on their fight and getting to know the man for who and what he is, ultimately finding resolution by not pursuing it further. He literally finds happiness by reconnecting with his father. It is weird, but also fitting, since the secret message is basically "Look at all of these guys who are called the strongest in the world and tell me if any of them look truly happy and fulfilled?" "They do when they're fighting..." "Yeah, and the rest of the time?" "Not really."

[@thunderlion1317]

If this is the actual meaning behind baki then the writer is a genius

[@colindowden2182]

Dude why you go over with that bs 😅😅😅.

[@hyperionofhyperness1883]

You did it... You solve the lore

[@Artemas_16]

​@@thunderlion1317well, you can see seeds of this in Ali jr. arc. Whole point of it is to show point of normal human being thrown in world of all this fighters who fight dirty, every day and night with only thrill of fight as only thing they still can feel. And as a normal human being should do, Ali says "Fuck this" and going far away from Japan.

[@sasho_b.]

...invisible food. Its what it was all about. I like the interpretation, but i dont agree. Baki is way too insane for this "strength for the sake of it is bad" bs. The characters are shown in enjoying the process of fighting in scenes and what-not. The prize is not the end but the challenge to get there. "One must imagine Sisyphus happy", shit like that. Plus, its really fucking cool for a guy to fight with 200 kgs stuck to him or hitting people with enough force to collapse a mountain, and yet the opponent to just eat it and go on. There may be a deeper meaning, but what is shown and what is intended by the author are two distinct things. Baki is baki, turn your brain off, enjoy it. There are other works that are more interesting to dive into the meaning of, say... Beastars.

[@joaoguilhermegomeshaiyashi7793]

Remember, the creator of this anime has a daughter who created Beastars.

[@birthofcrusade4123]

Baki is so outlandishly bizzare. The plot can literally be summed up with: "Big giant Buff dudes beating the piss shit out of each other for the sake of beating the piss shit out of each other. Fighting for the sake of fighting. Its almost beautiful in its simplicity.

[@BadTakeRisan]

Baki is one of the few shows that’s actually more silly than the SolidJJ parody 🤣🤣

[@wyatt8315]

Giving Yujiro the Green Goblin voice weirdly fits him

[@jamaalsjourney]

1:44 he managed to get yujiro in a face of remorse..

[@lephucchan8114]

I love how the "Here is a picture of Muhammad Ali" come out of nowhere and nobody even question it since they already confused by the invisible food

[@scarocci7333]

Ok, let me break down the final fight for you. In Baki, being stronger than someone mean you can impose your will on him. There is a message during most of Baki and especially Son of the Ogre, that says Yujiro is unable to dream and imagine things. He is too strong and everything is within his reach. When he tries to do something similar to Baki's imagination, the only thing he can project is just his image, the image of the Ogre. Baki helps his father fight boredom by giving him the best fight of his life, but he also is able to caught him under his imagination game, for a moment Yuujiro believes the fantasy is real, and think that the soup and the table are reals (he try to catch them when Baki flip the table). He accepts Baki was able to impose his will over him. For Yuujiro, that means he was defeated and also meant he was able to dream/imagine something, at least for a moment. Baki was able to make his father dream/imagine again and proved to be stronger by making his father fall for his trick. In the following arc (Musahi), Yujiro flat out ignore Musashi imagination's blades attack, saying "all of this is bullshit, it's not real so i don't care". Unlike Baki, Musahsi can't impose his will on Yujiro.

[@antokarman2064]

Idk why, but this reminds me of omni man when he watched mark's baseball game

[@busa1951]

SO THE INVISABLE FOOD WAS FUCKING RIGHT?!

[@scarocci7333]

@@busa1951 Of course it was. It also circle back to the pre-fight chapters, where baki invite yujiro at home to have a nice, normal family dinner. He makes a soup which Yujiro doesn't like, then try to play rock papper scissor to decide who clean the dishes and yujiro cheat at it so he doesn't have to do the dishes. Then the next scenes between each other, yujiro invite baki to a super luxurious restaurant to impress him, but it doesn't work, because baki just want a casual normal dad/son thing, and yujiro put no effort in it, he doesn't even cook or make the table. When he scold Baki about not having table manners, Baki answer by "i didn't had anyone to teach me this'". At the end of the fight, Yujiro sit down, and agree to prepare an invisible soup for Baki. Baki imposed his final will, a normal, family dinner, onto Yujiro. For the first time in his life, Yujiro did something because someone asked him to.

[@SomeGuyOnThisPlatform]

Woah this has to be the fastest recap of an anime I’ve ever seen Solid JJ sure saved me a lot of time.

[@TDJunkie226]

The thing about Baki is that, at least imo, it’s a lot less of a dedicated action series and more of a loving parody/sendup of other action anime. Thinking about it this way just makes it make a lot more sense imo.

[@zt7044]

I love how for once nothing is being exaggerated in solid jj video because baki's plot is just that insane and for those who don't know the story this fight starts with the tall guy throwing the kid out of a skyscraper

[@AnimeWalterWhite]

“ there is a picture of Muhammad Ali” most realistic part of the show

[@deathsceane]

When I first saw this anime, I noticed how the lips were drawn on these dangerous men. I thought I would have the irrational fear of being kissed by these men if I lived in that universe, but further in I realized that fear would've been more than rational. 😱

[@firasabouzaki7805]

I hate that I know exactly what you r talking about

[@NycmanTheNicestOfMen]

remember when a man tried to become masculine after getting rawdoggged by yujiro as he sees everyone as a woman because his testosterone is signficantly higher than everyone else????

[@MrSamulai]

Ah yes, how could you resist the succulent lips of Yuujirou Compared-To-Me-Everyone-Is-Female Hanma? This is not a rhetorical question btw. How do you resist? He's here and not taking no for an answer nor shotgun for an argument! I need he

[@deathsceane]

Honestly I don't know. I would require reality bending powers because I don't think even the sweet release of death is going to free you. Be it his death or yours. The only way out is to outmatch him in power and hyperbolic time chamber in another franchise has enough time to get that far so quick.@@MrSamulai

[@therealhousewife1032]

Pretty sure in one of the spin off mangas Hanayama kisses a girl and afterwards her face is completely twisted afterwards

[@undying384]

This isn't even wrong

[@goldexperience333]

I binge read the entire Baki series (that existed at the time) in like a week of continuous reading and I couldn't say what any of it was about other than that it was really awesome. This video is like 99% accurate except it needs more narrator-explaining-stuff :) iconic

[@_pure8413]

Solid as always, loved the ending.

[@spyrofan9681]

See this reflects a lot of my feelings about this series ... .. . But I'm still excited to see them do Musashi.

[@thepicausno5561]

No, I get it now. The invisible food is like, super nutrient dense and good for building muscle. The reason not everyone is eating it is because most people don't know about it, cuz it's invisible and stuff (I have never watched Baki)

[@mujtabaalam5907]

0:40 "Yujiro Hamna"